dj-lucide 1.1.12

Use lucide in your Django and Jinja templates.

dj-lucide

Use lucide icons in your Django and Jinja templates.

Requirements

Python 3.8 to 3.13 supported.

Django 3.2 to 5.2 supported.

Usage

The dj-lucide package supports both Django templates and Jinja templates. Follow the appropriate guide below.

Django templates

1. Install with python -m pip install dj-lucide[django].

2. Add to your INSTALLED_APPS:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...,
       "lucide",
       ...,
   ]
   

3. Now your templates can load the template library with:

       {% load lucide %}
   

Alternatively, make the library available in all templates by adding it to the builtins option:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
        # ...
        "OPTIONS": {
            # ...
            "builtins": [
                ...,
                "lucide.templatetags.lucide",
                ...,
            ],
        },
    }
]

The library provides one tag (lucide) to render SVG icons which can take these arguments:

• name, positional: the name of the icon to use. You can see the icon names on the lucide grid.

• size, keyword: an integer that will be used for the width and height attributes of the output <svg> tag. Defaults to the icons’ designed sizes, 24. It can also be None, in which case no width or height attributes will be output.

• Any number of keyword arguments. These will be added as attributes in the output HTML. Underscores in attribute names will be replaced with dashes, allowing you to define e.g. data- attributes.

Most attributes will be added to the <svg> tag containing the icon, but these attributes will be attached to the inner <path> tags instead:

• stroke-linecap
• stroke-linejoin
• vector-effect

Note: unlike the SVG code you can copy from lucide grid, there is no default class.

Examples

An "a-arrow-down” icon:

    {% lucide "a-arrow-down" %}

The same icon at 40x40 pixels, and a CSS class:

    {% lucide "a-arrow-down" size=40 class="mr-4" %}

That icon again, but with the paths changed to a narrower stroke width, and a "data-controller" attribute declared:

    {% lucide "a-arrow-down" stroke_width=1 data_controller="language" %}

Jinja templates

1. Install with python -m pip install lucide[jinja].

2. Adjust your Jinja Environment to add the global lucide function from lucide.jinja. For example:

       from lucide.jinja import lucide
       from jinja2 import Environment
   
       env = Environment()
       env.globals.update({
               "lucide": lucide
           }
       )
   

3. Now in your templates you can call that function, which will render the corresponding <svg> icons. The function takes these arguments:

• name, positional: the name of the icon to use. You can see the icon names on the lucide grid

• size, keyword: an integer that will be used for the width and height attributes of the output <svg> tag. Defaults to the icons’ designed sizes, 24. Can be None, in which case no width or height attributes will be output.

• Any number of keyword arguments. These will be added as HTML attributes to the output HTML. Underscores in attribute names will be replaced with dashes, allowing you to define e.g. data- attributes.

Most attributes will be added to the <svg> tag containing the icon, but these attributes will be attached to the inner <path> tags instead:

• stroke-linecap
• stroke-linejoin
• vector-effect

Note: unlike the SVG code you can copy from lucide grid, there is no default class.

Examples

An "a-arrow-down” icon:

    {{ lucide("a-arrow-down") }}

The same icon at 40x40 pixels and a CSS class:

    {{ lucide("a-arrow-down", size=40, class="mr-4") }}

That icon again, but with the paths changed to a narrower stroke width, and a "data-controller" attribute declared:

    {{ lucide("a-arrow-down", stroke_width=1, data_controller="language") }}

Use the Latest Lucide Icons (Custom Update & ZIP Selection)

By default, this package uses the Lucide icon ZIP file bundled within the package. You can now easily update to the latest Lucide icons at any time—without waiting for a package release.

Updating to the Latest Icons

A management command is provided to fetch the newest icons and save them to your project’s root folder.

Usage:

python manage.py update_lucide_icons

This will download the latest Lucide icon ZIP from GitHub and save it as lucide-latest.zip in your Django project’s root directory.

Using a Custom ZIP File (Settings Option)

You can explicitly tell lucide which ZIP file to use by setting the following variable in your settings.py:

import os
LUCIDE_ICONS_ZIP_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "lucide-latest.zip")

If this setting is provided and the file exists, lucide will always load icons from your specified ZIP file.

If the file is missing or the setting is unset, lucide falls back to the built-in package ZIP.

Acknowledgements

This package is heavely inspired by Adam Johnson's heroicons. It's actually mostly copied from it so a huge thanks Adam! This package is forked from Francisco Macedo's lucide.